Hang Up and Listen - Urban Meyer Is Out
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🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley talk about COVID running rampant through every sports league, again. Next, they discuss the end of Urban Meyer’s very brief career as an NFL coach. Finally, Joshua Neuman joins Stefan and Josh for a conversation about Kenny Washington, who broke the NFL’s color barrier a year before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s.
COVID (3:13): How should leagues and teams respond to the next wave of the pandemic?
Urban Meyer (22:37): Why did the successful college coach flame out of the pros?
Kenny Washington (41:25): Why isn’t the pioneering Black football player an American icon?
Afterball (1:02:30): Stefan on the state of Scorigami.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. Hide your children. |
| 0:18.1 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 20th, 2021. |
| 0:23.6 | On this week's show, we'll talk about how COVID is running rampant through every sports league again and through everything else again, and what in the hell we're going to do about it. |
| 0:33.6 | We'll also discuss the Jacksonville Jaguars firing Urban Meyer and why one of the greatest |
| 0:39.2 | college coaches of his day flamed out of the NFL so quickly. And finally, Joshua Newman will be |
| 0:45.8 | here for a conversation about Kenny Washington, who broke the NFL's color barrier, a year |
| 0:50.7 | before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's. So why isn't he remembered the way Robinson is? |
| 0:57.1 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the podcast One Year, Season 2 on 1895, in your podcast feeds right now. |
| 1:06.7 | Joining me is Stefan Fatsas, a man of Greek heritage, a native of New York. |
| 1:11.8 | He resides in Washington, D.C. and is the author of the books, In Order of Sales, Word Freak, |
| 1:16.9 | A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside. |
| 1:19.4 | Hey, Stefan. |
| 1:19.8 | Did you check the sales figures for that? Can you be sure that a few seconds of panic sold more than Wild and outside? |
| 1:26.3 | I looked on BookScan. |
| 1:27.9 | You did. |
| 1:28.3 | I did not. |
| 1:30.5 | It's just obvious. |
| 1:32.1 | I mean, that's correct, right? |
| 1:34.0 | It is correct, yeah. |
| 1:35.4 | Okay. |
| 1:36.4 | Our co-host, Joel Anderson, is off this week. |
| 1:39.1 | Hard at work on the Tour de Force season six of Slow Burn on the L.A. riots. |
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